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S3 FILES AND THE CHANGING FACE OF S3

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S3 Files lets developers mount any S3 bucket or prefix as a filesystem on an EC2 instance, container, or Lambda function. It is backed by EFS, which provides the tools developers already expect. From an application's perspective, S3 files is a mounted directory, but from S3's perspective, the data is objects in a bucket.